Exhibition - Learning My Lines

 We recently had a mini-mini-break down by the water - to celebrate the end of our 6 year lease and the transition out of a public space and to home-based work.

Here is the holiday mood in three photos...

A time to relax and reflect and celebrate.

On our way home we visited the University of the Sunshine Coast University's Art Gallery. The current exhibition is called Marking Time: 30 Years of the USCArt Collection. I am honoured that one of my books  - Learning my Lines - is in the collection, and even more honoured that it was selected to form part of this show. 

I really love this book. It is a bit of a departure for me into the sculptural artists' book realm; but I have been in love with it ever since I first bought the books that form the basis of it.

Its origin story can be found here and here.

This book is where I first learnt to hand rivet. Lovely hand made copper rivets hold the rusty straps together.

And here I am alongside it, looking a tad dishevelled, but proud!

This is the first time I have seen it on show without a Perspex cover and I loved being close to the texture and being able to see the details under gallery lighting...

The University has shown it previously as part of the exhibition Women's Work back in 2019. 

Here I am with it in that show. Much shorter hair, but better groomed (it was at the opening!) and I am laughingly trying to hide my left foot behind the plinth because I had a badly broken toe and it was in a foot splint thingy...